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Your child obese? Blame it on that TV, computer

Obese woman, A competitor prepares to go in front of judges at a casting call for the second season of the reality television programme "Dance Your Ass Off", during which overweight or obese contestants hope to lose weight by dancing, in New York December 18, 2009.

Removing that computer or television set from your child's bedroom might just save him/her from obesity, a new international study has shown.

The study covered about 6,000 children in 12 countries, 500 of them being from Nairobi.

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